# Romney hates cookies! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408 "2012-04-20T13:35:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/41 "2012-04-21T05:20:20Z")
This guy is as awkward as Dick Nixon. I can see Republicans really growing tolerant of him. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/42 "2012-04-21T08:33:04Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > This guy is as awkward as Dick Nixon. I can see Republicans really growing tolerant of him. Too bad he doesn’t have Nixon’s head for policy. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/43 "2012-04-21T10:43:10Z")
We can only hope he’s a better burglar, too. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/44 "2012-04-21T12:07:53Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > We can only hope he’s a better burglar, too. Or better at erasing tapes. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/45 "2012-04-21T12:19:22Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Or better at erasing tapes. Tapes are so 20th century: you need to erase memory cards or hard disks these days. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/46 "2012-04-21T12:44:56Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Tapes are so 20th century: you need to erase memory cards or hard disks these days. So 2010. Today’s surreptitious recordings are stored in the cloud. Harder to subpoena. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/47 "2012-04-21T15:48:28Z")
I know that audio is on disk or in the Cloud these days, but does Romney know that? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/48 "2012-04-21T17:03:47Z")
All this talk about cookies and not a word about him wearing a necktie to a picnic? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/49 "2012-04-21T17:12:05Z")
Are we sure that thing is detachable? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/50 "2012-04-22T23:43:16Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Are we sure that thing is detachable? NOOOOOOooooooOOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/51 "2012-04-23T00:11:47Z")
If this social misfit is elected President, can you imagine him traveling the globe, as the guest of foreign dignitaries? Almost as embarrassing as when Bush 41 vomited in the Japanese PM’s lap. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/52 "2012-04-23T00:14:45Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > If this social misfit is elected President, can you imagine him traveling the globe, as the guest of foreign dignitaries? Almost as embarrassing as when Bush 41 vomited in the Japanese PM’s lap. To be fair, I bet there are some bitchin’ cookies served at State dinners. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/53 "2012-04-23T01:24:29Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Meh. Its one comment out of what I’m sure at this point is thousands of hours of folksy small talk Romney has been forced to engage in during similar photo-ops. I suspect everyone, Governor or not, has a few awkward social moments every so often. There’s a difference between “a few awkward social moments” and repeated incidents of _insulting the people who are going to vote for you_. First it was the NASCAR fans and their rain ponchos that he mocked, not even a glimmer of awareness anywhere in his tiny, tiny reptilian brain that you don’t fucking make fun of what people are wearing no matter what. Now the mockery here – I was (until this) a patron of this bakery – which was less of the _cookies_, and more of the _woman_ who presented them to him. He _snarked her_ for not having baked him something homemade. How the hell is this person supposed to handle diplomacy when he can’t have a basic human conversation with anyone? I mean, it’s not like these are extended dialogues where he runs out of things to say, then puts his foot in. He walks up to people, opens his mouth, and insulting bullshit falls out. The first thing he says is an affront. He can’t think on his feet? He can’t say “hi, how are you?” He sees people and the initial comment he makes is ignorance? And this is presidential material? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/54 "2012-04-23T01:58:29Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > I was (until this) a patron of this bakery Wait, why have you stopped being a patron? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/55 "2012-04-23T02:43:08Z")
People, he was TRYING to compliment the cookies, not insult them. Yes I agree he did a thunderously bad job, but saying something is homemade looks store-bought is supposed to be a compliment. He wasn’t dissing the woman for not making homemade cookies, he thought that they were homemade and was trying to be polite by implying they were store-bought. Of course, choosing 7-11 as your example of where the cookies came from does seem to smack of an insult, but maybe The Mittster loves his 7-11 junk food. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/56 "2012-04-23T03:30:07Z")
In a different time, when people had more time than money and “fancy newfangled machine-made” was cool, that might have been true. That was a very long time ago. Too long ago for Mitt Romney to have any personal memory of it. No one I know would be flattered by having their homemade cookies compared to even the local bakery’s unless that bakery was truly exceptional. 7-11? Bitch, did you just say my cookies seem like Hydrox? I will cut you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/57 "2012-04-23T03:59:35Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > People, he was TRYING to compliment the cookies, not insult them. Yes I agree he did a thunderously bad job, but saying something is homemade looks store-bought is supposed to be a compliment. So why did he start off by saying, “I’m not sure about these cookies”? That’s hardly a ringing endorsement of the cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/58 "2012-04-23T06:46:11Z")
I agree with DianaG… on what planet is it a compliment to say someone’s homemade, real-food cookies are just like mass-produced cookies made with more chemicals than food? If they’re just like Keebler, it kinda defeats the purpose of making them from scratch in the first place. Is it just me, or has the entire GOP field this year seemed much more clownish and cartoon super-villain-like than ever before? He bungled a cookie compliment? Please, Mittens, didn’t your mama teach you if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all? So he’s not sure about those cookies… he can smile, say thank you, and then STFU. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/59 "2012-04-23T14:48:28Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Wait, why have you stopped being a patron? Because they’re still clamoring to get Romney to eat their damn cookies. (Which are good but not the best I’ve ever had, and are increasingly overpriced.) I had my suspicions about their political leanings from the Bible verses sprinkled around the premises and the tone thereof, but they _intentionally_ supplied the cookies as a measure of support for this Romney event and are heartbroken that he didn’t eat them and want to send him some to eat now. Republicans don’t need my money, and there are better bakeries closer to home anyway. I’ve similarly withdrawn my patronage of a diner whose owner was practically orgasming on live local TV because Romney did a meet and greet there. > [@drewtwo99](#): > > People, he was TRYING to compliment the cookies, not insult them. Yes I agree he did a thunderously bad job, but saying something is homemade looks store-bought is supposed to be a compliment. Saying something looks store bought can be a compliment for homemade clothes. Saying something looks store bought is an insult for homemade _food_. And if he was trying to say that they looked too precise or, dare I say, cookie cutter to have been made at home, the way to express that wasn’t to accuse the woman of trying to pass off someone else’s work as her own. Again, I reiterate, how the hell do you run a country when you cannot have a simple 30 second conversation about a plate of chocolate chip cookies without insulting multiple people and betraying your incredible ignorance about where the food that the majority of Americans eat is even purchased? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408/60 "2012-04-23T15:20:34Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > supplied the cookies as a measure of support for this Romney event and are heartbroken that he didn’t eat them and want to send him some to eat now. Wait, are you telling me that, in addition to being dubious about the cookies, and suggesting 7-11 lineage, he refused to eat them? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-hates-cookies/619408.md?page=4)